Genome

La Brea Hill
Monday 12:10-1:00


    Last week’s Freshman Seminar, given by Dr. Dunston was on the genome research. Although we did not get a chance to go into depth with the research as a whole, we received much information during the introduction of the lecture. We discussed the importance of the genome and how it related to us as humans. One of the main points that Dr. Dunston discussed, and I found most interesting, is the uniqueness of our genomes—comparing them to how we are unique ourselves. Each of us has our own set of genomes which makes us different from each other, not one person contains the same set. This to information came to me as an opportunity to us my differences, and uniqueness to stand out. The lecture, I found to be motivational because it sort of pushed up to try and seek out information about ourselves and our cultures. The genome project as a whole can be symbolic to our African studies—because we seek to find out more information about our origins. Discovering and researching our genomes and different genes allows us to reveal more about ourselves and about our history. Although it may be a bit difficult to completely recover our ancestor information based on genomes and genes, there is symbolism when discussing such things. We set out to find what is so unique and different about our genomes from others—that is what is so unique about our African culture than any other culture. Why start with just genomes, when we can go into a deeper study of finding the uniqueness of oneself.